On 2008-05-23, Johannes Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm just starting with Python and am extremely unexperienced with it so
> far. Having a strong C/C++ background, I wish to do something like
>
> if (q = getchar()) {
> printf("%d\n", q);
> }
>
> or translated to Python:
>
> if (p = myfunction()):
> print p
>
> However, this "assignment and comparison" is not working. What's the
> "Python way" of doing this kind of thing?
p = myfunction()
if p:
print p
In Python, assignment isn't an operator, it's a statement. The
condition in an if/while has to be an expression, not a
statement.
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